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EnglishArquer Buigas was the paternal grandson of a prominent Barcelona lawyer and industrialist who had once served as Gentleman-in-Waiting to His Majesty Alphonso XII as well as president of the Liceo Opera House Club (el Círculo del Liceo). His maternal grandfather was the architect of Barcelona’s Colombus Monument. His mother, whose brother was the designer of Montjuïc’s fountains and created the journal TBO, possessed an excellent talent for drawing and was perhaps one of the strongest artistic influences during the painter’s childhood. He grew up ensconced in a creative and imaginative milieu in which art and aesthetics were constantly discussed. Traveling between Madrid and at his paternal grandparents’ summer home in Cerdanyola del Vallés (which would become the set and inspiration for a large body of his output), Arquer Buigas began his first drawings and paintings.